ND psychologist seeks volunteers for study

February 22, 2006

SOUTH BEND -- A psychologist at the University of Notre Dame is recruiting men and women who have been treated for cancer within the past six months for a study of how people cope with the disease. The investigator, Thomas V. Merluzzi, director of the Laboratory for Psycho-oncology Research, is investigating factors that influence quality of life in cancer patients. Volunteers who are enrolled in this National Cancer Institute-funded study will receive $40 for responding to a series of questionnaires, which take just over an hour to complete. Some participants will be asked to participate in a second phase of the study in which they will discuss some of their reactions to items in the questionnaire. Participants in the second phase, an additional 90 minutes, will receive $60. For more information, call Merluzzi at (574) 631-5623 or send an e-mail to him at tmerluzz@nd.edu., or his graduate assistant, Carolyn Heitzmann, at cheitzm1@nd.edu.